Just to let you all know that I do know how to bake as well....................

my grandmother used to make these all the time during this time of year, so i thought i would give it a try and see how they turn out.


here are the 2 recipes that I used:

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015209-cultured-butter-cookies

https://www.365daysofbakingandmore.com/day-350-french-butter-cookies/

pics to follow!

Nate. For the record. I had NO doubt you knew how to bake. How about TRN though.


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I thought I saw that they had already selected a site and started building. There is an article at Fox that states the following:

"lready under construction is a new U.S. "consulate annex" in Jerusalem, which is believed to be more secure than the current embassy in Tel Aviv. Although senior administration officials said there was no facility currently ready for personnel to move into.".

So I this has been in the works for a while and will continue to put leverage on the Palestinians.

I like it 

Update: Where to begin...

Patch: the lift pump died. I took the doors off Patch and put them on a club cab gasser, and have been using that. Patch has been resting comfortably while life keeps me busy, so it's future is uncertain.

Anvil: got a lot more use this summer. Like 10k miles or so. Other than a recently developed small injection pump leak, it has done all that's been asked of it.

Kay's Mustang got the most attention. Autocross, drags, just driving..lots of subtle under the skin suspension mods, just drove it to church yesterday. Winter being almost here I imagine it will get little use now tell spring. Kays been making noise of selling it and buying a Vette....who knows with her. It has a whopping 6k miles or so on it these days.

Kay and her oldest daughter bought a 2015 Crew Cab Eco Boost F150 4x4.... it's almost everything I despise in a truck.. heated seats/leather, gadgets, technology. It gets the worst mileage towing of any vehicle I have owned EVER. Short little box on it makes it a girly truck. It does have 34.5" rubber, a locking rear axle and despite it's appetite for fuel when towing....it can haul 10K lbs at 75 mph rather easily.  It's growing on me a little....

The newest member of the fleet is a 1981 Chevy Standard cab heavy K10. Complete with a nice functional steel flat bed, a 383 small block and a 4speed. It needs a flywheel to be driven....so maybe soon I will have a chance to make that happen and then who knows what we will do with it. The plan as of now is to make it run and sell it. Before Kay gets any ideas and decides she needs a Cummins powered Chevy.

I have an entire house tore apart in the middle of dry walling/electrical upgrades/flooring I am suppose to be working on. Too many irons in the fire ATM

In the addition to all the above going on, I am trying to find time to put together a new "shop" in a building in town. Roughly 28' x 35' Nice flat floor, large garage door and lighting...its basically bare. I need to wire up a welder outlet, put a air compressor in there and I suppose I could get some work done. We did move some of the tool/equipment down there a few weeks ago. At the moment it's keeping Anvil and the Chevy out of the weather...that's about it.

Well Norm I'm glad to see you haven't slowed down any. Nice to see you on here again!

823058 is the Lowes item number to a product similar to the moist stop i use. I got mine at McCoys but can not find it on their site. I would have to actually feel the Lowes product to see how similar it is but it will work for the framing under the windows to flash the sill before windows go in and hardi goes on. It will also work on hardi joints. I have seen everything used from tar paper to synthetic roof felt on to and including metal tin or aluminum flashing. I just like the black roll flashing. I do not use house wrap as a flashing. You could also use many of the sticky window tapes also but they get expensive and are overkill.
I have never used or seen anyone use the sheers. I saw those and thought they were for the metal roof. If you like them let me know and i will give them a shot. I just use a diablo hardi saw blade. I try to never have a cut joint showing. I can get them perfectly square but if you look at the factory joint it has a very slight bevel. I hide all cuts under trim.
On the nails yes you can nail every 16” or 32” revealed. Or any pattern you want.  The hardi holds tight under all the trim and with proper nails hidden under the lap. But, i always reveal nail my joints and any irregularity that needs a nail to suck the siding down. Too many nails showing looks bad. It will sort of dimple the piece and will have a nail to caulk. The goal is a perfectly flat wall without any waves.
I also use interior/exterior liquid nails. It holds tight to hardi and i use it on trim pieces that i would shatter with more than one nail. If it oozes out spread the ooze and paint it or caulk over it and paint.
If you use a saw keep the guard blown off with air. The dust clogs its function and before you know it it no longer covers the blade and the saw takes off when you set it down. The saw is fast and allows me to cut a six piece stack at a time. It is however very dusty so wind to my back and cut. No wind and i am working on another area of the house as the dust is overwhelming at times.

I have to give it to Jared if you are typing all of this on a PHONE!! I can't hardly type my email address correctly. Great content! 

Well, believe it or not, I have not had a free hour to craw under that truck to get it running yet!

That's the bad news

Good news is that I just located another performance diesel shop very close by. I am arranging to have SquareD hauled over there tomorrow.

Yay!  Slow clap.


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Our first had Colic and Gerd. She was fine the first three weeks then all broke loose. She would cry constantly. Wife breast fed. We tried noise and vibration machine attached to crib to swings to you name it.  For 4 months we would basically walk circles around the living room with her on our forearm face down to get her to stop crying. Then we had a recliner where we had a Sears canisters vacuum running right next to it while she slept. It ran so long in the same place it stained a spot where the engine exhaust the engine dust.

That was the only way she would sleep. I would work during the day and then when I got home the wife would go to bed until midnight and I would switch.

We vowed not to have another kid. Lol. Didn't happen.

After the colic she was still very sensitive so we had to put up some bifold doors in front of her crib so we could commando crawl in to check on her without her seeing us. If she saw us it would be another 3 hour ordeal to get her back to sleep.

Try walking with them on your forearm face down. That worked. Got rid of the baby fat too. Lol

We also tried many other vacuums not wanting to burn out the big one but it had to be the Sears canister or she would sleep in the recliner.

Good luck


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Nice JR. glad you got it roughed in.


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Well gents, I'm a daddy. Our little girl was born 10/2 at 21:02. 7lbs 5oz. Mama did great, and baby is healthy, happy, and hungry! We decided to come home rather than spend a 2nd night at the hospital.

God is good. We are unbelievably blessed. Best day of my life



Congratulations! Glad to hear everyone is doing well!


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Congratulations Longball. Glad everyone is doing well!


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Prayers sent as well to him and family.


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I really like Dinesh D'Souza for a lot of reasons....first he's an academic, so his research is really thorough. Nothing like facts to blow holes in liberal talking points. Second, he's an immigrant, so for the libs who like to portray lovers of America as being old white guys from Europe or rednecks its hard for them to put him in this category (not that it stops them from trying! ). Plus he is just so calm when he speaks. I love Anne Coulter and Michelle Malkin for their rhetoric some times but Dinesh is just so calm and collected.

(As an aside I LOVED how he dealt with the question of giving land back to Indians. And it can be used so many ways today- at a student lecture a native American woman said the US needed to give back the land to the Indians that they took. He asked her what tribe she was part of (and I forget specifically and will bastardize his response so I am sorry). She said Cherokee (or something)....so he asked her "you think the US Government should give back the land to the Cherokee that they took". She of course said "yes". So he said "well are you going to give it back to the Iroquois that your tribe took it from? And will the Iroquois give it back to the Mohawks who they took it from? And will the Mohawks give it back to....." you can see where he went with this. Of course she had no answer. It has similar "uses" today- just the other day we saw LA rename Christopher Columbus day as "Indigenous People" day. Everything referenced the "native" Latinos there. Oh....so they are ignoring the Gabrielinos who met the Spanish explorers to the area. Or the Chumash, or Tataviam people. Its all such hypocrisy! )

I also finished One Second After a few weeks ago and grim is right. I found it amazingly thorough- there was the stuff I have spent a lot of time thinking/planning about- food preps, no power, etc. But the societal aspects (large numbers of folks coming off psych meds etc.) that really opened my eyes to more things (yeah, I need a LOT more ammo! yeesh! ).

Need more ammo!  CHECK

I have been looking at home brew insulin. It has been done to my amazement in 1922.

I need a centrifuge. Keeping my eye out for that.

Again, hope it doesn't come to that.


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Great series of posts. I will be real curious how you like the BFG's in that size.


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Great points TRN.

I think like most Americans I am not an historian and unfortunately until the last several years didn't really pay much attention to politics or history. I was at a High School soccer game last night and during the playing of the National Athem I noticed how many of the players and young kids were facing the flag but didn't have their hand on their heart and not really paying attention or respect.

Back to history. Not sure if any of you have read books or seen the movies by Dinesh D'Souza but I just finished his "Big Lie" book and it again was very eye opening of our history.
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Lie-Exposing-Roots-American/dp/1621573486/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504268924&sr=8-1&keywords=dinesh+d%27souza
In his books he lays out all of the history that hasn't been taught over the last 50 years.

I started with his "America, Imagine a World without America"
https://www.amazon.com/America-Imagine-World-without-Her/dp/162157203X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1504268924&sr=8-5&keywords=dinesh+d%27souza
This really lays out all of the things that are exceptional about the history of America and why it is so special. Also how much good we have done over the years that the Liberals and Progressives want to suppress.

Then I read this one about his persecution by the judges and prosecutors for a $20K donation to a political campaign. You compare what he went through and the absolute corruption in DC and it is amazing.
https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-America-Experience-Criminal-Democratic/dp/0062366718/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1504268924&sr=8-6&keywords=dinesh+d%27souza

Then I read and watched the movie "Hillary's America" It was also eye opening about the Democratic party as well as her long criminal career in politics. It really is unfathomable how anyone would want to place that woman in the White House if even 10% of this is true.
https://www.amazon.com/Hillarys-America-Secret-History-Democratic/dp/1621573478/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1504268924&sr=8-4&keywords=dinesh+d%27souza

Then in the theme of Harvey I read "1 second after" about a small town in North Carolina and how they (or don't) survive a Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack. Reading TRN comments about gasoline and generator is spot on as far as his security and preparedness plan. It also hit home when the main character in the book has a type1 diabetic daughter. All the challenges of getting and keeping insulin and it running out. How to you home brew insulin!? You don't. What was impressionable was how fast it gets bad and how long it is predicted that help would come even in the minimal way of getting MRE's to people so they stop eating their pets and quit starving to death. Pretty grim.

It is a very good read and hopefully a scenario that we will never need to deal with.

https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel/dp/0765356864/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504269859&sr=1-1&keywords=1+second+after+book

Can you tell I was on Vacation for a week! LOL 

Thanks Wilbur. Prayers sent to Mike as well.


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TRN. One of my fav places. Enjoy!


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Alright. This thread hasn't had much activity in the past few days so I thought I would give you fellers something to do.

I normally just deal with stuff but this one might need some help.

After getting my neck stuck with needle last week I got the results back. Not good. Squamous Cell Carcinoma. The dreaded C word. I have a PET scan next week to see how wide spread it is so if you guys would put a good word in with our Maker I would really appreciate it.

 

Sounds good to me. More bang for $$$$

 

Don, Curious what you think about this proposal?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/08/08/war-afghanistan-trump-white-house-weighs-bold-plan-privatize/548004001/

I have told my wife many times some conflicts should be privatized. But not being ex military I am curious what you guys think.
 

For kids eating we are along the same track as TRN. Wide variety of healthy foods at each meal and they had to try it. Wife kept putting the same stuff in front of them and it was interesting to see what they didn't like a year ago all of a sudden they like it and request it. Taste definitely change. My oldest is female and she is a very healthy eater. Found out she is type 1 diabetic this year so it is great she already thinks about what she eats. Youngest child is male and he is still a little more picky than sister. Even at 16. He is in sports so always hungry.

We never were clean your plate club and they have always maintained good body weight. Always had good snacks on hand so chips weren't the easiest to grab. Our biggest problem is fast food due to time crunch and it's easy. Daughter doesn't eat it but son like Taco Bell and McDonalds. That's a problem.

Having a girl and boy 4 years apart we never let them hit or even wrestle much. Looking back it would have been better to have supervised aggression.

Good luck.


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TRN. It is definitely cool. I ran to the buffet.


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Have fun TRN. One of my favorite cities. If you can check the Del Coronado Hotel. They don't care if you walk around. I used to stay there when we did Beta work for Qualcomm. I would also be curious what you think of the Mexican food at Old Town Mexican Cafe where the ladies in front make the tortillas by hand. I thought it was good but I might have just been a tourista.


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TRN. Not sure if you have seen this but on the Xtreme Off Road show he is modifying a LR Defender 90.

He is putting a Jeep JK frame underneath and 1 ton axles. He is keeping it right hand drive and shows how easy it is to put the steering box on the JK Frame because they were also sold as right hand drive.

Not sure you want to go as deep as he is doing but if the frame on that one is all rusted out it might be good to start with a JK frame and build up.

http://www.powernationtv.com/episode/XO2017-16/xtreme-xpedition-upgrades

 

Congrats Sam. Millennials are a challenge to manage but very doable. My common comment is "even if you are doing a great job when you are here, if you don't show up how good of a job have you done?" If they are on the job I can manage them and they will be successful. If they can't show up there is no chance.

My afternoon of sticking needles in my neck. Yippie!

Battery Powered Circular Saw.... There are the new ones from Dewalt.... queue Ken..

I have used the 18V Dewalt for years and it has been great for me. Just have to make sure you have batteries.

http://www.dewalt.com/products/power-tools/saws/circular-saws/612-165mm-18v-cordless-circular-saw-kit/dc390k

Then I bought this adapter for the newer longer lasting batteries and other then a bear to get out of the saw or driver it works great also

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200661496_200661496?cm_mmc=Google-pla&utm_source=Google_PLA&utm_medium=Power%20Tools%20%3E%20Power%20Tool%20Batteries%20%2B%20Chargers&utm_campaign=DEWALT&utm_content=52789&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqvvLBRDIARIsAMYuvBFD8pBbOpxOU4ajzgiCplkFrn53Lkvz0ugRXrPsc1YT2Zae3xpWW8QaAjb8EALw_wcB

 

Longball. Congrats on the new little girl! Hope everyone is doing well.

Nice trip JR. The 59 degrees probably felt good also.


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